It is hard enough to lose one horse, but two is tragically heartbreaking.

It was not only the untimely deaths of mother and daughter, Tussock and Summer, but also in the horrible way they died (accidents, which are to graphic to put here).

After Tussock died Jann had the memories of her in her daughter Summer. Summer was certainly starting to show the star quality that Tussock had and Tussock was a star. Summer's heart was just as big as her mothers and she was so giving. As in Janns own words "Summer was broken in at the beginning of 2006, and she was amazing. So brave, and such a sweet girl – just like her mother she gave everything she had and more. She was going to be a star too – amazing ability and potential."

To add salt to the wound, Jann was horribly injured herself. She has spent the last years trying to get re-habilitated and can now do light riding.

As a keen eventer Jann had it all in front of her.

But one thing we can say is in Tussock and Summer's short lives (7 & 3), they proved that Kaimanawa's have huge hearts and great spirit, which we who own them know they possess.

Goodbye beautiful girls.

CONTRACEPTION FOR THE KAIMANAWA WILD HORSES. IS THIS REALLY GOING TO BE SAFE? This is what concerns us and the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Preservation Society. While PZP will not be the drug used (this has already been tried and failed). The drug of choice is now being trialed and is it's infancy stages. We have heard Rumours that it could be used as early as 2012, and we hope that they are only rumours. It has been tested on Bison and Bears! You can look up the drug yourself by googling it, it is called GnrH. Don't excpect to find a lot of information about it though. The herd does need to be be managed, but with only 300 or less horses left we have to be careful how we go about it. Please read the link below as it is very interesting regarding the view of contraception on wild horses. http://horsetalk.co.nz/news/2010/10/220.shtml

Miscellaneous PLEASE READ THIS It has come to our attention that another Kaimanawa group (not the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Preservation Society) is accusing us of scaremongering regarding the below article. Our Society is here to tell the TRUTH and we are not hiding behind anyone's skirts and that includes DoC. We will give you information as it comes to hand. We are still working on the case and a lot of hard work is being put in by the Committee to get to the truth. But is very hard to get "contacts" to tell what has happened to the appropriate authorities. We have also been told by the same group that our site is outdated. Well we update our site at least once a week. This history of the horses is also the future of the horses. Our Society is here 100 per cent for the Kaimanawa wild horses. UP TO 100 KAIMANAWA HORSES SENT TO SLAUGHTER. This is a recent photo of some of the horses we are talking about. At the moment we have reached a dead end, but we are now going to the authorities. We would like this matter sorted out. Updated 5th October 2010. We are giving you all the latest news on our website. One of our main contacts does not want to take the matter further as "he knows how people feel about the Kaimanawa horses", but he stands by his word that they have gone to the meat works. It puts us in an awkward position, but we will keep on fighting. And please do not send spam emails to our Society. One woman has already sent 12 with the likelihood of more coming. She is also critizing our website. As I have just said, any information will be put onto the website immediately NB: These Kaimanawa horses are more than likely pre 2005 roundup. Our Society is appalled at the owners of these Kaimanawa horses who were not given a chance by our Society to help rehome them, but were instead sent to the Meat Works in the Wairarapa. Unfortunatly we came across this situation too late and the horses who were in the greater Wellington area were slaughtered. By all accounts they were of varying ages. From mares in foal to stallions. A lot of them would have been able to be rehomed to experienced people. These people who shall go nameless (for obvious reasons) should never have been allowed to have Kaimanawa's in the first place if they felt so little for them. Our Society intend on taking this matter further. Although legally the people were allowed to do this, we are going on a moral and ethical reasoning here. The practice of giving people large numbers of Kaimanawa's has stopped, but we think a lot damage has already been done. We would have thought it very obvious when you have stallions and mares together, they will breed. The mortality rate would not be as high as those in the wild. If you do have any Kaimanawa's you dont want, please contact us or one of the other two Kaimanawa groups and we will do our best to help out. We do know there are more groups of Kaimanawa's out there, but at this stage their fate is unknown.